Do you still watch YouTube? Who do you follow?
Do you still watch YouTube? Who do you follow?
It seems that everything turned into scams, aggressive self marketing and just click bait irrelevant content. I liked finance videos, but every creator sounds like "the world will end soon" or "my secret method to make 1 million per week day trading stocks/forex/crypto."
Content aimed at culture (movies/series) also behave the same way, throwing a bit of politics into the mix. Always the same incendiary click bait title spewing a bunch of nonsense that has nothing the story, setting characters or other topics relevant to the piece.
Is there anything that can be saved on that platform? It has gotten so bad that I'm start to think that Tiktok and Twitter both have better content than YouTube. At least in those platforms you can find a random dude writing an essay in a series of 20 tweets on why an increase of mantis is related to the global surge of ballpoint pen prices.
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I know this will get hate, but I still enjoy LTT.
Who throws shade at LTT? They're quite entertaining.
A lot of people complain about the clickbait headlines or that he's hamming it up for the camera. He does get a lot of hate.
I personally find him entertaining and I like most of the other presenters. I don't mind the clickbait headlines because they're all clickbait, it's like a running joke itself.
Yeah they've openly said that they wish they didn't have to do the clickbaiting, but that the effect it has on their total views/revenue in undeniable. It's kinda just how YouTube is at this point, adapt or die
Veritasium did a video about it, with data to back it up. They took old video and reposted them with and without clickbait titles and images. The difference of views is staggering. People just like it o suppose.
There's always option c, which is not pursuing a media empire... lots of small channels that are successful without the clickbait crap.
A lot of what they want to do and do in fact do wouldn't be possible at a smaller size. Their new lab uses equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a piece.
Not to mention the hundreds of staff they now have that need to be paid
Aw, that's unfortunate. Clickbait by itself shouldn't ruin a creator for someone. Gotta look for the positives, not the negatives.
I'M SO ANGRY. I WAS BAMBOOZLED INTO WATCHING A VIDEO I ENJOYED.
What? LTT is great!
I really enjoy the WAN Show but the LTT channel is hit or miss for me, most videos are way too long for the content that they actually provide. It makes sense considering the amount of videos they make, but it’s frustrating
To each their own, but Linus is tech cancer.
Can you elaborate? I see comments like this that say "thing/person bad" but never back it up with a reason.
He used to produce decent content, until he just started doing everything stupid and wrong. For instance build a HUGE storage server with FreeNAS (now TrueNAS), then failed to back it up, lost tons of Tbs of data, and failed to do typical things with that type of storage system.
That’s one of the failures I can think of off hand, I know there’s a few others but it’s essentially all IT no no’s, things that make IT pro’s cringe. It can 100% amusing content for non IT pro users but yea.